september 27, 2001. It's funny how the pendulum of my life keeps swinging between inside and outside: on Mondays & Tuesdays I have to pack a couple of meals with me when I leave in the morning, as I know I won't make it back until nightfall. But Thursdays and Fridays are turning into days when I rarely, if ever, leave the house at all. I was supposed to go into work today, but I figured that I could work from home just as easily, so I put on a sweatshirt & started my morning ritual of reading webjournals from the comfort of my own kitchen table. And as I'm waiting on my boss for a vital piece of information to continue work, I took a productive break & cleaned up the kitchen. This, for me, is the problem of working in my apartment: housework starts to interfere with homework. Yesterday I wanted to do paid work, but I realized that if I didn't get back to my vacation writing, I'd go nuts in a matter of days. So I voted myself the afternoon off, and wrote from noon till 2 (from August 28th to the middle of the 31st, for all those keeping score at home). I considered it akin to a mental health leave; those entries were starting to hang over my head in big guilty clouds of guilt, and they were interfering with my ability to plan anything else. I'm glad I did it too. I may not be my own boss, but at least I can schedule my paid work around my keeps-me-sane work. I had a long-delayed meeting with Rev. R about the website yesterday. The whole project had kind of stagnated over the summer as vacations interfered with meetings and the general sense of stillness and lethargy that comes along with a good Wolfville summer permeated us all. This was the first time she had seen any of the scanned photographs of the congregation in my design, and she was just pleased as punch. She was also pleased to hear that we could get decent web hosting for $9.95 a month, plus $30 a year to register a sensible URL. Rev. R is a fantastic woman in every sense of the word, and (not but) she's not all that comfortable with the Internet yet. I think she had been girding herself for the worst, knowing that we needed a webpage but having no idea how much it would cost to keep going. We're not a rich congregation in the financial sense - our deficit mounts yearly - but even the Boy & I, with our poor-student offerings, could pay for a year's worth of this project in about 2 months. So that's good, and it's nice to be the bearer of glad tidings, especially to woman I admire so much. (She's just so - darn - cute! And wise, and smart & oh so-darn-a lot of things. Not to mention pretty. Very pretty. I have a bit of a non-sexual crush on my minister, have I mentioned it before?) So that's going well. By this time next month there should be a real honest-to-goodness website up & running, even if most of the links point to a "coming soon" page. I'm very excited. this time 2 years ago: irrelevancy gives me hives